Re : Network programming in Linux

[Vimal Mathew <m_vimal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

>Can the client and server be written in different languages?

Sure! I access the Internet tonight from a Windows system(last night it was 
from a Linux system) through a proxy server running Sun OS or Digital Unix 
(belonging to VSNL). This is possible because though both the clients and 
the proxy-servers are written in different languages and may even run on 
different OS, they follow the same internet-protocol(TCP/IP). So, as long as 
both of your programs follow the same set of rules, there should be no 
problem...


>Should the proxy server be written as a single program ?

Why not? I don't know much about Java; but if I wrote it in C, I would try 
to put them in a single program.

Vimal Mathew,
Model Engg. College
<m_vimal@xxxxxxxxxxx>


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